Lot Essay
For a similar more extensive service printed with Classical scenes, see Sotheby's Olympia, London, 11 March 2003, lot 188; also J. Kybalová, European Creamware, p. 101, pl.87 for a similar plate.
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CIRCA 1810, BLACK PRINTED MARKS FOR STONE, COQUEREL AND LE GROS, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE CREIL MARK AND VARIOUS PRINTED AND IMPRESSED NUMERALS
Details
AN EXTENSIVE ASSEMBLED CREIL CREAMWARE TOPOGRAPHICAL PART TABLE SERVICE
Circa 1810, black printed marks for Stone, Coquerel and Le Gros, impressed uppercase CREIL mark and various printed and impressed numerals
Transfer-printed in black with named views and fables within variant borders, a large selection within a sunflower border, others with variant fruiting vine, most with central decoration of named monuments in Paris and London, middle eastern sites, fables, Italianate landscapes and other rural and urban European views, comprising:
Two graduated oval platters in two sizes
Fourteen graduated circular platters in four sizes
Twelve egg cups
Two barrel-form condiment pots on fixed navette stands, one cover and one spoon
Four circular lion-paw footed salts
Eleven cylindrical pots à jus and conical covers
One soup plate
Sixty-two dinner plates
Two footed bowls
Four canted square dishes
Seven graduated saucer bowls in three sizes
Eight dessert plates
Five octagonal dessert plates
Together with:
Two oval and one circular Zell creamware platters, printed in black with landscapes within grapevine borders (155)
Circa 1810, black printed marks for Stone, Coquerel and Le Gros, impressed uppercase CREIL mark and various printed and impressed numerals
Transfer-printed in black with named views and fables within variant borders, a large selection within a sunflower border, others with variant fruiting vine, most with central decoration of named monuments in Paris and London, middle eastern sites, fables, Italianate landscapes and other rural and urban European views, comprising:
Two graduated oval platters in two sizes
Fourteen graduated circular platters in four sizes
Twelve egg cups
Two barrel-form condiment pots on fixed navette stands, one cover and one spoon
Four circular lion-paw footed salts
Eleven cylindrical pots à jus and conical covers
One soup plate
Sixty-two dinner plates
Two footed bowls
Four canted square dishes
Seven graduated saucer bowls in three sizes
Eight dessert plates
Five octagonal dessert plates
Together with:
Two oval and one circular Zell creamware platters, printed in black with landscapes within grapevine borders (155)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's Olympia, London, 22 July 2003, lot 373.